Q: Mr. Rosen, after Mr. Barr announced his resignation, did Donald Trump continue to demand that the DoJ investigate his claims of election fraud?
A: Yes, he asserted that he thought the DoJ had not done enough.
Q: From the time you took over from Attorney General Barr until January 3rd, how often did President Trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud?
A: So between December 23rd and January 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day with 1 or 2 exceptions like Christmas day. And before that, because I had announced that I would become AG before the date I actually did, the president asked that Rich Donoghue and I go over and meet with him on December 15th as well.
Q: So after you had some of these meetings and conversations with the president, what things did the president raise with you?
A: So the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the DoJ, in his view, had not done enough to investigate election fraud. But at different junctures, different topics came up at different intervals. At one point, he had raised the question of having a special counsel for election fraud. At a number of points, he raised requests that I met with his campaign counsel, Mr. Giuliani. At one point, he raised whether the DoJ would file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court. At a couple junctures, there were (??) about making public statements or about holding a press conference. At one of the later junctures, was this issue was sending a letter to state legislatures in Georgia or other states. So there were different things raised at different intervals, with the common theme being his dissatisfaction of what the DoJ had done to investigate election fraud. I will say that the DoJ declined all of those requests that I was just referencing because I did not think they were appropriate based on the facts and the law as we understood them.
Chairman Thompson asking questions to Richard Donoghue:
Q: On December 15th, the dy after AG Barr announced his resignation, the president summoned you and Mr. Rosen to the White House. At this meeting with the president, what did he want to discuss?
A: There were a number of topics of discussion that day, Mr. Chairman. Much of the conversation focused on a report that had been recently released relating to Antrim County, Michigan. I believe on December 13th, an organization called the Allied Security Group issued a report that alleged that the Dominion voting machines in that county had a 68% error rate. The report was widely covered in the media. We were aware of it. We obtained a copy of it on the 14th of December, the day prior. We circulated it to US attorneys in Michigan for their awareness. We had a number of discussions internally. The conversation with the president on that day, the 15th, was largely focused on that. He was essentially saying, "Have you seen this report?" He was adamant that the report was accurate, that it proved the election was defected, that he in fact won the election, and that the DoJ should be usiong tath report to basically tell the American people that the results were not trustworthy. He went on with other theories as well, but the bulk of that conversation on December 15th focused on Antrim Country, Michigan, and the ASG (he pronounced it ASOG, not sure why) report.